Mists of Pandaria: Shaman Class Preview

With Mists of Pandaria a month a way, we'll be previewing each class: their armor sets, changed abilities, cool spell graphics, and new talents. Today we'll take a look at Shaman. Most notably, there's been many changes to totems, level 90 talents are Unleashed Fury, Primal Elementalist, Elemental Blast, and the new level 87 ability is Ascendance.

Elemental Blast: Harness and direct the raw power of the elements towards an enemy target, dealing 4372 to 5079 (+ 211.2% of SpellPower) Elemental damage and increasing the caster's Critical Strike, Haste, or Mastery by 3500 for 8 sec.

Windwalk Totem, level 30 talent: Summons an Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 6 sec, granting raid members within 40 yards immunity to movement-impairing effects.

Spells allowing you to drop 4 totems at once are gone: Call of the Elements

Six new totems have been added.

Stone Bulwark Totem: Summons an Earth Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 30 sec that grants the caster a shield.

Capacitor Totem: Summons an Air totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that gathers electrical energy from the surrounding air and then explodes after 5 sec to stun all enemies within 8 yards for 5 sec.

Earthgrab Totem: Summons an Earth Totem with 100 health at the feet of the caster for 20 sec. The totem pulses every 2 sec, causing roots to ensnare the legs of all enemies within 10 yards for 5 sec, preventing movement. Enemies that have already been rooted once by the totem will instead have their movement speed reduced by 50%.

Windwalk Totem: Summons an Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 6 sec, granting raid members within 40 yards immunity to movement-impairing effects.

Healing Tide Totem: Summons a Water Totem with 10% of the caster's health at the feet of the caster for (11 sec) sec. The Healing Tide Totem pulses every 2 sec, healing the 5 most injured party or raid members within 40 yards for 4932 (+ 48.4% of SpellPower).

: Summons an Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster, empowering allies within 30 yards with lightning. While empowered, allies' spells and attacks will trigger bursts of electricity, dealing additional Nature damage to their target. Lasts 10 sec.

Notable Abilities

Level 87 ability, Ascendance: The Shaman surrenders his physical form to the power of the elements, gaining the ability to transform into a being of raw elemental energy for 15 sec.

Grace of Air: Empowering winds swirl around the Shaman, granting all nearby party and raid members 3000 Mastery.

Echo of the Elements: When one of your spells causes direct damage or healing, you have a chance to gain Echo of the Elements, duplicating that spell's effect.

Comments

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Comment by Sarydus

on 2012/08/24 19:03:12

The shaman challenge mode gear looks amazing. It literally looks like you have a pair of mortars strapped to your shoulders.

Comment by BurningTruth

on 2012/08/24 19:13:04

im trying to understand is Primal Elementalist does it juts empower your elemental totems and add like commands you can give them like ghouls and what not or is it like a actual pet like hunters and what not? maybe a stupid question but i wanna make sure lol

Comment by Interest

on 2012/08/24 21:58:53

im trying to understand is Primal Elementalist does it juts empower your elemental totems and add like commands you can give them like ghouls and what not or is it like a actual pet like hunters and what not? maybe a stupid question but i wanna make sure lol

I'm going to go on a limb and assume it just gives you a pet bar (and I know the elementals have some active abilities, so you can probably control the usage of those too).

Comment by Junblat

on 2012/08/24 23:03:41

where can i find the warlock version of this please ?

Just wait; they are going to release them over the next week.

oh ok, thank you

Comment by ranutso

on 2012/08/25 13:45:32

The weapon spells under the Class Abilities tab do not mention the unleash effects, however, the Unleash Elements spell tell us to look on each specific spell for that effect. So that got me confused. Is the Unleashed Fury talent required in order to make Unleash Elements any useful? Or will the Unleashed Fury talent provide additional effects to the common unleash effects? Common unleash effects which are not present on Wowhead's tooltip but are still present in-game.

Thanks

If that was complicated, here is a one liner. Either the Unleash Elements spell is totally useless until you pick the level 90 Unleashed Fury talent OR Wowhead's tooltip for the weapon imbue spells are missing the unleash effects description. Which one?

Comment by KeleturShask

on 2012/08/25 15:06:27

UF provides additional effects to UE.

Search for "unleash" to find all the different unleashed imbue effects.

Comment by laredo6

on 2012/08/28 22:46:46

I don't what good in my shammon anymore, the talents are terrible and the glyphs are horrible. Blizz you've taken everything away. Why?

Comment by dragnorSWC

on 2012/08/29 14:14:37

I haven't rolled enhancement yet since the patch, but can anyone tell me if unleashed rage affects the shaman or just the raid? Grace of Air & Burning Wrath but exclude the shaman is why i ask.